The Journey of the I: Boon to the Corporate Good
June 9, 2016
Hosted by Gwendolyn D. Galsworth, Ph.D.
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Episode Description
Would it surprise you to know that operator-led visuality is not a team-based methodology? Not at first. At first, the process focuses on strengthening the individual—both in skill and identity. Listen as your host and visual expert, Gwendolyn Galsworth, describes the individual journey that each individual (the “I”) engages when they learn why and how to gain control over one’s corner of the world through visual solutions. As a result, the company gains a 15%-30% increase in productivity. The individual gains that part of themselves that was previously not welcomed at work—the part they left in the back seat of the car, with the window slightly cracked so it is still there when they clocked out at the end of the shift. Operator-led visuality invites that part in—to participate, to express, and to invent visual solutions, some never been seen on the planet before. This is a boon to the corporate good. Tune in. Learn more about the journey of the I. Let the workplace speak.
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Visual Workplace Radio: Let the Workplace Speak offers the best in practical tools, methods, and strategies for improvement leaders who want to apply workplace visuality and harness its remarkable cultural and bottom line contribution. Visuality: you can’t get to excellence without it.
Each week, award-winning author and foremost visual workplace expert, Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth, targets new learning and applications through a range of formats, case studies, interviews with business leaders and topic experts.
Whether yours is a factory, hospital, military depot, bank, office or dry cleaners, get informed, get inspired, get visual.
Gwendolyn D. Galsworth, Ph.D.
Gwendolyn D. Galsworth, PhD, is president and founder of Visual Thinking Inc. and The Visual-Lean Institute(r), a training, consulting, and research firm in visual workplace technologies. Over a period of 30 years, Dr. Galsworth has codified the field of visuality into a single coherent framework of thinking and application called the 10-Doorway Model.
In 2005, Dr. Galsworth established the Visual-Lean(r) Institute where in-house and external trainers are licensed in nine core visual workplace courses.
Four of her nine courses are now available as on-line training systems (English/Spanish), with more to come. Galsworth is author of seven books, including two Shingo Prize winners: Visual Workplace/Visual Thinking and Work That Makes Sense, available from her website and Amazon.
Dr. Galsworth began in the 1980s as the head of training/development at Productivity Inc. She worked closely with Dr. Ryuji Fukuda to adapt the CEDAC(r) method for western companies, and with Dr. Shigeo Shingo to develop, among many things, poka-yoke for the West. She was principal developer of Visual Factory, TEIAN (operator-led suggestion systems), and the X-Type Matrix.
A Fellow on the Shingo Institute Faculty and former Baldrige and Shingo Examiners, Galsworth has led study missions to some of the world’s finest companies, including in Japan. Dr. Galsworth lives in New England where she happily works, hikes, and writes.
